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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure Years
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Ambition Character Roles

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